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Trevince March
The Trevince March was played at Tea Treats, a popular entertainment in Cornwall during the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.
  • Merv Davey
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Falmouth Polka – Polka Aberfala
The Falmouth Polka (Polka Aberfala in Cornish)  was played as a march for Cornish Tea Treats. 
  • Merv Davey
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St Just Cock Dance
The St Just Cock Dance was communicated to a Mr Bolitho by a St Just miner circa 1890.
  • Merv Davey
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Cornish Quickstep / Number One Quickstep
The Cornish Quickstep was played as a march for Cornish Tea Treats in the 19th Century
  • Merv Davey
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Flight March
The Flight March was adapted from the song "St Keverne's Feast" to provide a Tea Treat March in the nineteenth century
  • Merv Davey
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Delyo Syvy
Delyo Syvy as collected for the Racca Project 1995-97 See: Racca: Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project Also song Delyow Sevi
  • Merv Davey
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Blue Bonnets / Pengughow Glas
Audio File: Blue Bonnets / Pengughow Glas as played by Lowender Peran Festival Band 1987 Notes: This tune is often used for the Cornish Broom Dance. Click link to Racca: Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project
  • Merv Davey
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Plethen A Dry – Three Hand Reel
Audio File: Plethyn A Dry – Three Hand Reel as played by Lowender Peran Festival Band 1987 As Played By Charlie Bate for Padstow Old Cornwall Society in 1976 W.Arthur Pascoe’s Three Hand Reel 1929 Notes Cornish version of a tune played across Britain, Ireland and also in New England
  • Merv Davey
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Begone From The Window
Begone From the Window was published in the Old Cornwall Journal in 1927 from the singing of Jim Thomas.
  • Merv Davey
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